Raising Health

The AI-Flipped Clinic with Zak Kohane

Zak Kohane, Vijay Pande, Kris Tatiossian, and Olivia Webb

Posted August 8, 2023

Note: This episode was recorded as part of the Bio Eats World podcast, now known as Raising Health.

Isaac (Zak) Kohane, MD, PhD, the Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, joins Vijay Pande, founding partner of a16z Bio + Health.

Together, Vijay and Zak talked about having been through AI winters and hype cycles before, and why they think this time could be different. They also talked about how AI could revolutionize the healthcare model — what Zak calls the “flipped clinic.”

Join Zak and Vijay as they talk about how AI could flip the clinic, how foundation models could quickly transform the discovery and development of drugs, and how Zak thinks about the future.